Wire reel



G. A. PAFF WIRE REEL y Nov. 1, 1927. 1,647,115

Filed Sept. 15. 1926 INVENTOE Patented Nov. l, i927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. PAFF, OE PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, ASSIGNOR VT0 WHEELING STEEL CORPORA- TION7 OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

WIRE REEL,

Application filed September 15, 1926. Serial No. 135,553.

This invention relates broadly to reels, and more specifically to reels or spools of the type employed as carriers for fence wire and the like.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a reel for Wire which has formed therein central eyes of permanently circular and not readily distortable form for the reception of a supporting spindle orv arbor upon which the reel may be rotated in unwinding the wire therefrom.

A further object is to provide a structure of the character mentioned in whirh the eye-forming portions are made integral with the end members of the reel.

In describing the invention in detail, reference is herein had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the invention; and- .li`igure 2 is an end elevation of the same.

Referring to said drawings, l designates the parallel reaches of each of two similarly shaped members which are disposed in relatively lined quadrangular body-forming relation. The said reaches l of each of said members are intermediate parallel portions of an elongated loop of approximately rectangular form made of a single length of heavy wire, which loop has the opposite ends thereof bent outward at right angles to said reaches, forming parallel wings 2 of loop shape.

Associated with said body-forming members and complementing the wings 2 of the latter for forming eruciform reel ends orv flanges are two cross members. Each of said cross members is formed of a single length of heavy wire bent to form opposite end Iloops 3 and an intermediate eye et, all disposed in the same plane. Moreover, each cross member comprises a connecting link between the two body forming members, the wings 2 of the latter being passed through the body of said cross member prior to formation of the eye 4 of the latter and being jointed to the adjacent long side of said cross member by means of `embracing loops 5 formed at and exterior to the angles between said Wings and the reaches l, as shownV in Fig. l. i

The eye 4 of each cross member is formed by arouately bending the midlength portions of the two long sides of the. latter and disposing said arcuate bends 4 in overlapping complemental relation, and then rotating said bends one or more'times to form the oppositely disposed twists 6 which serve to maintain said bends 4a in iXed relation.

In prior structures of this type embodying bearing eyes, the complemental eye-forming portions have been nonrigidly related and, therefore, the weight of the reel with its burden of wire coiled thereon, when mounted for rotation on a spindle, arbor, or other support, has tended to distortthe eye or to bend the same into an oblong form, thus rendering rotation of the reel objectionably irregular and diliicult. This objection is overcome bythe eye structure of the present invention.

rA reel for fence wire and the like, comprising two body forming members, each consisting of a substantially rectangular endless wire loop having its ends bent laterally to form parallel wings, and two crossmembers forming` connecting links by which said body forming members are held in fixed relation, said cross members being associated with said wings in the formation of reel ends of cruciform shape, each cross member consisting of an endless wire loop bent to form opposite end loops and a central eye, the latter being formed by overlapping arcuate bends provided in the opposite sides of `rid cross members, which bends are rendered relatively Xed by the formation of twists at the points of their overlapping contact, and are disposed in the plane of the longitudinal axis of said cross members and wings.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature.

GEORGE A. PAFF. 

